---
title: "RQ: Monitoring"
layout: docs
---

Monitoring is where RQ shines.

The easiest way is probably to use the [RQ dashboard][dashboard], a separately
distributed tool, which is a lightweight webbased monitor frontend for RQ,
which looks like this:

[![RQ dashboard](/img/dashboard.png)][dashboard]

To install, just do:

```console
$ pip install rq-dashboard
$ rq-dashboard
```

It can also be integrated easily in your Flask app.


## Monitoring at the console

To see what queues exist and what workers are active, just type `rq info`:

```console
$ rq info
high       |██████████████████████████ 20
low        |██████████████ 12
default    |█████████ 8
3 queues, 45 jobs total

Bricktop.19233 idle: low
Bricktop.19232 idle: high, default, low
Bricktop.18349 idle: default
3 workers, 3 queues
```


## Querying by queue names

You can also query for a subset of queues, if you're looking for specific ones:

```console
$ rq info high default
high       |██████████████████████████ 20
default    |█████████ 8
2 queues, 28 jobs total

Bricktop.19232 idle: high, default
Bricktop.18349 idle: default
2 workers, 2 queues
```


## Organising workers by queue

By default, `rq info` prints the workers that are currently active, and the
queues that they are listening on, like this:

```console
$ rq info
...

Mickey.26421 idle: high, default
Bricktop.25458 busy: high, default, low
Turkish.25812 busy: high, default
3 workers, 3 queues
```

To see the same data, but organised by queue, use the `-R` (or `--by-queue`)
flag:

```console
$ rq info -R
...

high:    Bricktop.25458 (busy), Mickey.26421 (idle), Turkish.25812 (busy)
low:     Bricktop.25458 (busy)
default: Bricktop.25458 (busy), Mickey.26421 (idle), Turkish.25812 (busy)
failed:  –
3 workers, 4 queues
```


## Interval polling

By default, `rq info` will print stats and exit.
You can specify a poll interval, by using the `--interval` flag.

```console
$ rq info --interval 1
```

`rq info` will now update the screen every second.  You may specify a float
value to indicate fractions of seconds.  Be aware that low interval values will
increase the load on Redis, of course.

```console
$ rq info --interval 0.5
```

[dashboard]: https://github.com/nvie/rq-dashboard